Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about.
他们的工作是严肃的，即使是那些轻描淡写地展示学识的评论家，比如乔治·伯纳德·肖和欧内斯特·纽曼，也让人放心地相信他们知道自己在写什么。
So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism," Newman wrote, "that I am tempted to define 'journalism' as 'a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.
纽曼写道："如此之少的作者拥有足够的头脑或文学天赋来在新闻业中维持自己的地位，以至于我忍不住想把‘新闻业’定义为‘由不被阅读的作家用来蔑视那些被阅读的作家的术语’。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。